Teatro delle Albe at the Festival de Otoño in Madrid
fedeli d’Amore (Love's faithful) is a “polyptych in seven panels for Dante Alighieri” written by Marco Martinelli and devised and directed together with Ermanna Montanari.
Different voices speak to us in the individual panels, and speak of the refugee, of the poet fled from his own city which has condemned him to burning at the stake and now on his deathbed, exiled in Ravenna, sick with ague.
Those voices are suspended between the fourteenth century and our own day, and Martinelli’s writing holds together political and metaphysical “reality”, chronicle and spirituality.
Ermanna Montanari – “alone, puissant, radical, at the lectern or in the proscenium, with that great voice” (Rodolfo Di Giammarco) – guides the spectators on this journey “about” Dante and our present day, in an extraordinary interpretation that earned her the Ubu Prize as Best Actress.
The performance enriches the itinerary which Martinelli, Montanari and Teatro delle Albe, together with Ravenna Festival, began in 2017 with Inferno and continued in 2019 and 2021 with the other two parts of the Divine Comedy – a path carried out with a ‘Cantiere Dante’ (yard) open to all the citizens who wished to participate and together with a group of ‘wise’ friends – philosophers, writers, literary scholars– who faced Dante with different viewpoints and instruments.
On November 17 and 18, fedeli d’Amore is staged at the Festival de Otoño in Madrid, presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid, which is a partner of the festival.
In this year that marks the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, the Italian Cultural Institute and Teatro delle Able has organized a Dantesque workshop for those wishing to learn more about his work: 15 people, both actors and simple enthusiasts of the Divine Comedy, will work together for five days (November 15-19) and then show the outcome of the small ‘Dante yard’ in a performance at the Italian Cultural Institute.
The Teatro delle Albe’s tour is supported by the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid, Emilia-Romagna Region, and ATER Fondazione.
